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Lovely copy. Gilt edging, silk ribbon. Blue cloth cover, text and illustrations clean and unmarked, no highlighting, creasing, underlining or writing. Hard Cover w/ decorative cover, no DJ as issued. Clean and bright, some edge, corner and shelf wear. No rips, tears or stains. Binding is solid, square. 2012. Paul Legault. McSweeney's. The Emily Dickinson Reader: An English-to-English Translation of Emily Dickinson's Complete Poems. Ships quickly and with care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul Legault Published in 2012, this experimental poetry volume consists of approximately 320 pages. It is categorized as a work of conceptual literature, parody, and translation studies. The book is structurally unique for presenting a complete, poem-by-poem "translation" of Emily Dickinson's entire canon of 1,789 poems into single, modern English sentences. The project is organized in chronological order, matching the standard numbering of Dickinson's poems established in academic editions. Legault strips away Dickinson's complex metaphors, dashes, and syntactic ellipses, replacing them with blunt, often humorous or ironic modern commentary. The work functions as a creative critique of academic hermeneutics, investigating the accessibility of 19th-century lyric poetry and exploring the boundaries between literary translation, creative writing, and parody.

SYNOPSIS:

The Emily Dickinson Reader by Paul Legault

Published in 2012, this experimental poetry volume consists of approximately 320 pages. It is categorized as a work of conceptual literature, parody, and translation studies. The book is structurally unique for presenting a complete, poem-by-poem "translation" of Emily Dickinson's entire canon of 1,789 poems into single, modern English sentences.

The project is organized in chronological order, matching the standard numbering of Dickinson's poems established in academic editions. Legault strips away Dickinson's complex metaphors, dashes, and syntactic ellipses, replacing them with blunt, often humorous or ironic modern commentary. The work functions as a creative critique of academic hermeneutics, investigating the accessibility of 19th-century lyric poetry and exploring the boundaries between literary translation, creative writing, and parody.

 

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